The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-09-29
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STATE ITEMS.
Events and Incidents Culled From
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the Latest Texas Papers.
Good rains have fallen throughout Mi.
lam county in the past few days.
Corn is selling on the streets at Graham
at from 20 to so cents per bushel.
The killing of rattlesnakes is becoming
quite a common thing in Jack county.
The cotton crop at Corsicana will be
larger than was expected few weeks
ago.
The cotton crop in the vicinity of Haskell
will yield much more than was ex
pected.
Laredo has been blessed with fine rain.
1t rained there steadily for twenty-four
hours.
A stalk of corn measuring fourteen feet
was grown by Mr.. Walker IN Comanche
county.
The new city hall at Corsicana is a
daisy, or will be when the finishing touches
are completed.
A party of ten from Goldthwaite bought
tickets at Temple Thursday and en-
barked for California.
Palestine is to have a vegetable and
fruit canning establishment to be in oper-
alton in time for next years crop.
Ex-Governor Ireland and party passed
through San Antonio Thursday, to Seguin,
on their return from Monterey, Mexico.
During the rain of last Thursday night,
near Mankins' crossing, about eight miles
east of Georgetown, four COWS were killed
by lightning.
Cotton receipts Thursday at Waco were
200 bales. Merchants say business is fair;
about on an average with the last three
cotton seasons.
A Mexican lion measuring eight feet
from tip to tip was recently killed in the
Panhandle, at the head of Cantonment
creek, by j. W. Harrah.
Workmen, in removing flooring from a
business house on Austin avenue at
Waco, discovered human skull between
the ceiling and the roof.
new town, to be called Nunal, is being
built half way between Sherman and
Denison, on the survey of the Atchison,
Topeka d Santa Fe railway.
A new railroad, street railway, big
fair, and thousand other things are
ilftlng Corslcana and Navarro county in
to good deal of prominence.
Heavy rains fell all over the section of
country around San Antonio. The rains
OF the past week have been the heaviest
and most general of the season.
The farmers are experiencing a great
deal OF trouble in getting cotton pickers.
benson is full of idle negroes, but they
disdain to go into the cotton patch.
There have been general rains all over
haskell county for the past four days.
Inc country assumes an air of prosperity,
ana prospectors are beginning 70 come
again.
Inc fall fights have opened in earnest
at Corslcana. j. l.. Burgess, correspondent
OF tne Dallas News, is minus of a $40 cane
thaG ne smashed over the man who called
him a liar
The vicinity of Anderson, in Grimes
county, Is SO dry that vegetation has
and the cracks in the earth are
very wide. Erath county is also suffering
from lack of rain.
1t is estimated that there are something
near 1OO cases of dengue in Mexia this
week. The disease, however, is of a mllder
form than that which has heretofore pre-
vailed in that section.
Inc Denison News says that a young
woman who is jealous of her sweetheart
assaulted him with a whip on Barrett
avenue tuesday night, at Denison, while
ne was In company with another young
The oat crop in Lipscomb county is
eAcelient In many places. The average is
rom sixty to seventy bushels to the acre.
corn' on some farms, will average near
Sixty bushels, and the yield of Irish po-
Satoes Is surprising.
The splendid rains of last week at Ora
nam 1 nave put the ground in better con-
litlon than it has been for over two years.
ne ground is now thoroughly wet; the
grass Is fine; there Is plenty of corn made
a that county to do the people; an album
lance OF hay and feed of all kinds, and the
cotton crop is better than it has been for
'ears
a rather romantic wedding took place P.
4eat Washington square public school |
)ulluing Thursday AT Sherman in which |